Paris Public Transportation Department Relies On Atempo For Enterprise-Wide Data Protection

Published 13th November 2006

Atempo Time Navigator Protects Customer’s 45 Terabytes of Business-Critical Data Spread Across 400 Heterogeneous Servers...

PALO ALTO, Calif., November 13, 2006– Atempo, Inc., the leader in data protection and storage security for trusted information lifecycle management (ILM), today announced that the Paris Public Transportation Department (RATP) relies on Atempo Time Navigator to protect 45 TB of critical, enterprise-wide information. RATP operates and maintains buses, tramways, metro and regional trains. With 43,000 employees, RATP is one of the largest public transportation departments in the world.

RATP has been using Time Navigator as its data protection platform since 1994. The most recent installation of Time Navigator extends backup support for 20,720 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes with a volume of 15 TB per day stored on 400 servers running Unix, Linux and Windows.

“With the exponential growth in servers, particularly UNIX, automated backup of large amounts of data housed in a heterogeneous operating environment is essential,” said Daniel Quéré, backup infrastructure architect of RATP’s Information Systems Department. “Atempo’s Time Navigator gives RATP heterogeneous platform support and the ability to scroll back in time to restore data at the file level.”

“Time Navigator’s broad platform coverage and its unparalleled scalability enable us to meet the needs of our customers for the long run, independently of IT infrastructure changes. In spite of exponential data growth and new data protection challenges, our customers, such as RATP, stick to our solutions for the long term,” said Fabrice de Salaberry, vice president of EMEA sales at Atempo. “We continue to expand our footprint with the support of the IBM iSeries and Mac OS X platforms as well as the availability of best-in-class CDP solutions.”

RATP’s storage infrastructure is distributed among three locations in France: Neuilly Plaisance and Porte de Clignancourt are the production sites and Noisy le Grand is the development site. Each site owns one STK L700 library with 9940 drives. One storage and backup SAN is being implemented to allow the replacement of multiple small SANs already in place. Each SAN will be connected to two EMC DMX 2000 disk arrays. A full backup is carried out once a week, and an incremental backup is performed once a day. Parallel backups are done the “Y way” with two drives each time in order to externalize and secure media. Test restorations of all applications are done once a year as a preventative measure.